I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
To be totally honest, I thought I would have a Broadway debut in the distant, distant future, maybe in my 60s or 70s when… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85? — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less and less… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
![“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if…” quote by Stephen Karam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbd/stephen-karam-10010_church_suddenly-you-re-at-church-and-you-hear-s_732855.jpg)
